Thursday, May 4, 2017

Foothills Monthly Meeting

Come join us this Thursday and bring a friend. The social time is
around 6:00 - 6:30 with the program starting up at 7:00 and runs to
about 8:00.

Our guest speaker for the May Foothills TU meeting
will be Mike Brod with the US Forest Service office out of Gainesville.
Mike is a Staff Officer with the Forest Service specializing in Fire
and Natural Resources and a long time resident of Rabun County. This
timely presentation by Mike will focus on encouraging public
participation in the Foothills Landscape Community Collaboration. The
purpose of this project is to create, restore and maintain ecosystems
that are more resilient to natural disturbances. Specifically, the
Forest Service is seeking to enhance and provide quality habitat for
rare and declining species, as well as desired game and non-game
species; to reduce hazardous fuel loading across the landscape to
diminish damaging wildfires; to improve soil and water quality; to
provide sustainable recreation and access opportunities; and to awaken
and strengthen a connection to these lands for all people.

From the Chattahoochee National Forest website:
We Need YOU: We need your knowledge and insights right from the start
in order to plan the right work in the right places for the right
reasons. Share what you know about the Foothills Landscape with us and
others through this collaboration. Use this forum to tell your community
what you care about and why. Describe what you want and need from this
landscape...and also what you can and do give. Learn from the knowledge
that others share. And consider the many other perspectives revealed to
all of us through this collaboration.